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Definition of Frigg
1. Noun. (Norse mythology) goddess of the heavens and married love; wife of Odin.
Definition of Frigg
1. n. The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
Definition of Frigg
1. Proper noun. (context Germanic mythology Norse mythology) The wife of Odin, and the Norse/Germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom Friday is named (due to her being identified with Venus). ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Frigg
Literary usage of Frigg
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teutonic Mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1882)
"In so far as such comparisons are allowable, Frigg would stand on a line with
Here or Juno, especially the pronuba, Jupiter's spouse; and Freyja with Venus ..."
2. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"Loki Enn vil bu, Frigg, at ek fleiri telja q. mina mein-stafi ? ek ... I ween
Frigg knows the fate of all men, though she say it not.—L. Hold thy peace, ..."
3. Corpus Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Edda Sæmunder, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"Loki Enn vil bu, Frigg, at ek fleiri telja y. mina mein-stafi? ek ... I ween
Frigg knows the fate of all men, though she say it not.—L. Hold thy peace, ..."
4. The Religion of the Teutons by Pierre Daniël Chantepie de la Saussaye (1902)
"Turning now to the Scandinavian North, we find there the Teutonic Frija (Frigg)
and the specifically Norse Freyja. By a critical analysis of that entire ..."